A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

No man was ever great by imitation.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.