The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

All the world loves a lover.