It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.