“Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.”

“Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.”

“Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”

“Money has never made man happy, nor will it; There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has, the more one wants.”

“The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.”

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”

“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”