Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.