To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

He who is brave is free.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.