'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

Life is too short for a long story

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.