Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.