Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.