“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,But good men starve for want of impudence.”

“None are so busy as the fool and knave.”

“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”

“I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.”

“Look round the habitable world, how fewKnow their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!”

“When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat;Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay:To-morrow's falser than the former day;Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blestWith some new joys, cuts off what we possesst.”

“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.”