When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.