I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.