The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.