“Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!”

“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”

“To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.”

“It is better to live rich than to die rich.”

“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.”

“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”

“To bring back riches from the East you must bring riches with you.”