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

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.