It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.