He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

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

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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