Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

What's money without happiness?

Bright and illustrious illusions!

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.