A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.