A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.