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.

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

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

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

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

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.