If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.