Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator..

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours..

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone..

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the com….