Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.