Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
Fortune is either with you or it's not.
The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.