Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.