Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.