If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.