Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.