Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.