Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

He is praised by some, blamed by others.

Gold will be slave or master.