The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
With poverty everything becomes frightful.
The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.