What once were vices are manners now.
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.