Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.