“The nakedness of the indignant world may be cloathed from the trimmings of the vain.”

“He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never rise to fight again.”

“Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.”

“law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law”

“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey/Where wealth accumulates and men decay”