Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds-A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace & embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.

Appearance is a word that contains many temptations, which is why I avoid it as much as possible. For it is not true that the essence of things appears in the empirical world.

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.

The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.