Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.