Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.