Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.