The world itself is too small for the covetous.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

A great fortune is a great slavery.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.