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.

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

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.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

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

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

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