Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.