If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.