There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.