He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.