Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

See the effect of commercial intercourse.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

No one ever suddenly became depraved.