Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.