No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.