The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.