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.

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

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

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.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.