The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.