The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

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

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

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.

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.