Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

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.