Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.