He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.