The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Every man is of importance to himself.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.