We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.