Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

For who is pleased with himself.

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

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.