Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words: industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.