The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
The world is governed by love,--self-love.
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.