The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.