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

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.