Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.