To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?