Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off..

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves..

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least..

Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, h….

Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth Boasts all the….

Ambition is the mind's immodesty..

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public ro….

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity..

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know..

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence..

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath..

Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Pr….

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth..

Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity..

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in….

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd….

O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark pass….

Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow Of slight beginnings to important ends..

What one cannot, another can..

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed..

All jealousy must be strangled in its birth..