What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.