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.

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.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

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.