There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.