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.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

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

Silence gives consent.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.