No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?