The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

Apologies are seldom of any use.