1. “Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.”
2. “Our sins, like our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how grea and monstrous!”
3. “Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities.”
4. “A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.”
5. “Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.”
6. “Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.”
7. “Tis love in love that makes the sport.”
8. “Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.”
9. “Tis not the meat, but ’tis the appetite makes eating a delight.”
10. “For the people are naturally not valiant and not much cavalier.”
