Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
Be a gentleman farmer.
Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.