It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman..
Knavery is the best defense against a knave..
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself..
Knaves starve not in the land of fools..
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave..
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave..
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool..
Even knaves may be made good for something..
The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth..
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike.
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of t….
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave..