May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

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

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.