When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

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

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

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

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

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.