Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

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

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.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.