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

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

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

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.