Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.