Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.