Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.