The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.