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

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.