There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.