Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.