A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

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

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

Money amassed either serves us or rules us.

I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.