When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.