“If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.”

“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”

“There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.”

“For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.”

“A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. ”

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it”