Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.