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

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

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

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.

Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

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

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.