When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.