Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Wisdom triumphs over chance.
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
Integrity is praised, and starves.