Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.