Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.