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

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.