The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.