The jests of the rich are ever successful.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.