Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

There is no gains without pain.

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.