If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

Prudery is ignorance.

In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.