No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Luck never made a man wise.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty