Make All Fair Allowance For

No One Becomes Depraved All At Once.

The Sweetest Pleasures Soonest Cloy, And Its Best Flavour Temperance Gives To Joy.

No Nice Extreme A True Italian Knows; But Bid Him Go To Hell, To Hell He Goes.

They Do Not Easily Rise Whose Abilities Are Repressed By Poverty At Home. [lat., Haud Facile Emergunt Quorum Virtutibus Obstat Res Angusta Domi.]

The Smell Of Money Is Good, Come Whence It May. [alluding To Vespasian's Tax On Ordure.]