Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
A novice always behaves with propriety.
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!