Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.