Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.