The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

No human thing is of serious importance.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

Democracy passes into despotism.