The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
No one ever suddenly became depraved.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it