There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits—the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. (15)