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

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.