Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.