Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.
The worst dog gets the best bone.
A stranger's rose is but a thorn.
Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.
Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?