In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.