The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

You never know what you can do till you try.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.