Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

Of what avail are pedigrees?

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.