1664
Riches and care are as inseparable as sun and shadow.
1665
As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be below mediocrity, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
1666
I remember when Mr. Locke first came over from Italy. Old Dr. Moore, who had a high opinion of him, was crying up his drawings, and asked me if I did not think he would make a great painter? I said, "No, never!" "Why not?" "Because he has six thousand a year."
—Northcote.
1667
Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.