He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

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.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand