There is even the dignity of vice.

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

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.