No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.