It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit; nor has any man found the evils of life so formidable in reality, as they were described to him by his own imagination; every species of distress brings with it some peculiar supports, some unforeseen means of resisting, or powers of enduring.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

The future is purchased by the present.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.