There is ripe fruit over your head.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

It is a great art to saunter !

All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.