A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

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.