Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
With poverty everything becomes frightful.
Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.
It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.