Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.
Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.