There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.