Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.