How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!