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.

For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?