We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.