The Care Of A Large Estate Is

Be Rich For Yourself And Poor To Your Friends.

Whatever Is Committed From A Bad Example, Is Displeasing Even To Its Author.

Of What Use Are Pedigrees, Or To Be Thought Of Noble Blood, Or The Display Of Family Portraits, O Ponticus?

All Arts His Own, The Hungry Greekling Counts; And Bid Him Mount The Skies, The Skies He Mounts.

The Venal Herd. [lat., Venale Pecus.]