Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
To have slaved so many years for nothing!
The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.