Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

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.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!