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

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.