Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

That which costs little is less valued.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.