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

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.