Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
Savage bears agree with one another.
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.