Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.