A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

Love can be founded upon Nature only.