Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it