We'll stand up for our properties, was the beggar's song, that lived upon the alms-basket. L'Estrange.
Weak eyes are precisely the fondest of glittering objects. Carlyle.
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as under adversity; strong and deep ones have two highest tides—when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. Hare.
Weak persons cannot be sincere. La Roche.
Weak Virtue that amid the shade / Lamenting 15 lies, with future schemes amused, / While Wickedness and Folly, kindred powers, / Confound the world! Thomson.
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. La Roche.
Weaknesses, so called, are neither more nor less than vice in disguise. Lavater.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. Theodore Parker.
Wealth consists of the good, and therefore useful, things in the possession of the nation; money is only the written or coined sign of the relative quantities of wealth in each person's possession. Ruskin.
Wealth cannot purchase any great private 20 solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality. Thoreau.