I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or have not judgment, penetration or taste to perform the task.

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.