Riches seldom make their owners rich.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.