There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.