Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

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.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.