The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

Great hopes make everything great possible

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets