There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
No man profiteth but by the loss of others.
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.