Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.