The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.