Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

The mob will now and then see things in a right light.