Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.