Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.
Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.
Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.