We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

What else is nature but God?

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time