An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.