I rejoiced at the increasing prosperity of my friend, and imagined that, as he grew rich, he was growing happy.

I do not know any greater misfortune can happen to a plain hard-working tradesman, as I am, than to be joined to such a woman.

Time therefore ought, above all other kinds of property, to be free from invasion; and yet there is no man who does not claim that power.

I married a wife with no great fortune, but of a family remarkable for domestick prudence, and elegant frugality.

To get a name, can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought.