Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
A man of refined taste and judgment.
A man perfect to the finger tips.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
He that finds out he’s changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man’s shoe be made on his own last.
An envious man grows lean at another’s fatness.
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.
The common people are but ill judges of a man’s merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.