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

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

We are free to yield to truth.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.