Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.