Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

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

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

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

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