Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.