Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.
Better a serpent than a stepmother!
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.