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

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

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.