Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.
All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.
Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.