Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
