The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.