Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.