Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

The pen has shaken nations.

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.