The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
Jealousy is one of love's parasites.
The less we know the more we suspect
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.