Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.
Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.