Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.