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

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.