Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.