Crimes generally punish themselves.
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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.