Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.