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

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

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.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.