In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

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

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.