Love and friendship exclude each other.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.