Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
A fool and his words are soon parted.
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.