Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.