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• Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse
  Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own....
• Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be ju
  Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified....
• A miser is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor.
• With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 5...
• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes.
  What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. -- Seneca...
• Every man is the architect of his own fortune. [Faber est suae quisquae fortunae.] -- Sallustiu
• There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
  -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Trachiniae, 1...
• When a man laughs at his misfortunes, he loses a great many friends.
  They never forgive the loss of their perogative. -- H. L. Mencke...
• A miser is someone who earns his money the hoard way.