A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

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