Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
A fool and his words are soon parted.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
