Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
Life protracted is protracted woe.
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.