“Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise.”
“Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.”
“The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.”
“The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.”
“Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.”
“Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,Gathers and melts.”