Ambition, In A Private Man

How Sweetly Sounds The Voice Of A Good Woman! It Is So Seldom Heard That, When It Speaks,it Ravishes All Senses.

Petitions, Not Sweetened With Gold, Are But Unsavory And Oft Refused; Or, If Received, Are Pocketed, Not Read.

The Good Needs Fear No Law, It Is His Safety And The Bad Man's Awe.

Ambition, In A Private Man Is A Vice, Is In A Prince The Virtue.

We Have Not An Hour Of Life In Which Our Pleasures Relish Not Some Pain, Our Sours, Some Sweetness.