It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

As the world leads we follow.

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.