Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.