He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.