It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.
Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.