Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

The sun shines even on the wicked.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

A great fortune is a great slavery.