In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.