Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
