The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.

Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest.

It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.