Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
