Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.