These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.