I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

He that rises late must trot all day.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

A penny saved is two pence clear.