Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.