Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.