What is genius or courage without a heart?

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.