O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.