Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.