Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.

Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.

Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

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.