He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.