So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

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

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.