The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
All habits gather by unseen degrees.
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.