A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.