“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.”

“And, pleased th’ Almighty’s orders to perform,Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.”

“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”

“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves tomankind, which are delivered down from generation togeneration as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn”

“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”

“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover”