Man appoints, and God disappoints.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.