I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.

Frugality is a handsome income.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.