Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.