Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

Hope, like the gleaming taper

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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