Self-denial is the best riches.
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
No one can wear a mask for very long.
He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.