Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

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.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.