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.

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

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.