Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.
Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.
For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.
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.