There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

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.

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.