Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
Jean de la BruyereA man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Jean de la BruyereA man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.
Jean de la Bruyere