No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individual, or in governments.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.