Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.