With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.