“If you would know the worth of money, go and try to borrow some.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”

“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.”

“I do not pretend to give such a sum; I only lend it to you. When you shall return to your country with a good character, you cannot fail of getting into some business, that will in time enable you to pay all your debts. In that case, when you meet with another honest man in similar distress, you must pay me by lending this sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with such another opportunity. I hope it may thus go through many hands, before it meets with a knave that will stop its progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”