“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”

“A quiet mind cureth all.”

“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”

“Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.”

“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”

“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.”

“To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.”

“Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.”

“Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.”

“Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.”

“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”