Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
A person's fate is their own temper.
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.