it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty. - Frances Burney

Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!

To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic; but to dispense them worthily must, surely, be more beneficial to mankind.