The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
There is even the dignity of vice.
A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.