A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.