Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.