There Are Two Considerations Which Always Imbitter

Sir, Money, Money, The Most Charming Of All Things; Money, Which Will Say More In One Moment Than The Most Elegant Lover Can In Years. Perhaps You Will Say A Man Is Not Young; I Answer He Is Rich. He Is Not Genteel, Handsome, Witty, Brave, Good-humored, But He Is Rich, Rich, Rich, Rich, Rich -that One Word Contradicts Everything You Can Say Against Him.

Though We May Sometimes Unintentionally Bestow Our Beneficence On The Unworthy, It Does Not Take From The Merit Of The Act. For Charity Doth Not Adopt The Vices Of Its Objects.

There Is Nothing So Useful To Man In General, Nor So Beneficial To Particular Societies And Individuals, As Trade. This Is That Alma Mater, At Whose Plentiful Breast All Mankind Are Nourished.

He That Dies Before Sixty, Of A Cold Or Consumption, Dies, In Reality, By A Violent Death.

A Comic Writer Should Of All Others Be The Least Excused For Deviating From Nature, Since It May Not Be Always So Easy For A Serious Poet To Meet With The Great And The Admirable; But Life Every Where Furnishes An Accurate Observer With The Ridiculous.