If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

What is easy is seldom excellent.