Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.