In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.