“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

“Friendship is like Money; easier made than kept.”

“Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.”

“Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.”

“A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believingstrange things, and the stranger they are the easier they passwith him; but never regards those that are plain andfeasible, for every man can believe such.”

“I know not why, but all the noblest arts hold in perfection but for a very little moment. They soon reach a height from which they begin to decline, and when they have begun to decline it is a pity that they cannot be knocked on the head; for an art is like a living organism—better dead than dying.”

“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”