That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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.
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!