You ask me about the state of my fortune, and you wish to know whether you may believe the rumours that are abroad about my riches.

It is true that my income is increased; but so, also, proportionably, is my outlay.

I am, as I have always been, neither rich nor poor.

Riches, they say, make men poor by multiplying their wants and desires; for my part, I feel the contrary; the more I have the less I desire.

Yet, I suppose, if I possessed great riches, they would have the same effect upon me as upon other people.
"You ask news about my son.