Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

Whatever you have spend less.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.