I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Two quotes.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke. Book 1, Chapter 3, section 3.

and

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Quid enim refert, quantum habeas? multo illud plus est, quod non habes.
Attributed to Seneca the Elder but actually from Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, bk. 12, ch. 2, sect. 13; translation from Riad Aziz Kassis The Book of Proverbs and Arabic Proverbial Works (Leiden: Brill, 1999) p. 159.