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.

In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

All industry must be excited by hope.

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

The present is never a happy state to any human being.