Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Simplicity is a delicate imposition.