"If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done."

"If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human."

"Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water."

"Men take their misfortunes to heart, and keep them there. A gambler does not talk about his losses; the frequenter of…"

"Heaven says nothing, and the whole earth grows rich beneath its silent rule. Men, too, are touched by heaven's virtue…"

"The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living."

"Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it."

"In life it is training rather than birth which counts."

"Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery."

"Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors."