A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.