“The more stitches, the less riches.”

“There are two ways to get rich. Either get more, or want less.”

“Paranoia seems more reasonable when you've got twelve stitches in your side.”

“And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls.”

“Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.”

“by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them”