Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.