“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
