The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

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.

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.