Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
Little folks become their little fate.
Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.