Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.