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

Observation is an old man's memory.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart