If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.