So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

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

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.