High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]