We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.