The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.