He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance. - David Hume

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

There is no craving or demand of the human mind more constant and insatiable than that for exercise and employment, and this desire seems the foundation of most of our passions and pursuits.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.