The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

No man was ever great by imitation.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.