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

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.