Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.

Gold--the picklock that never fails.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.