No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.