A Light Purse Is A Heavy Curse.

Virtue May Not Always Make A Face Handsome, But Vice Will Certainly Make It Ugly.

I Say It Is Impossible That So Sensible A People [citizens Of Paris], Under Such Circumstances, Should Have Lived So Long By The Smoky, Unwholesome, And Enormously Expensive Light Of Candles, If They Had Really Known That They Might Have Had As Much Pure Light Of The Sun For Nothing.

In Success Be Moderate. Humility Makes Great Men Twice Honourable.

A Single Man Has Not Nearly The Value He Would Have In A State Of Union. He Is An Incomplete Animal. He Resembles The Odd Half Of A Pair Of Scissors.

Despair Ruins Some, Presumption Many.