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

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.