Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

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