If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.