A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.