Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?