Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.