The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

And empty heads console with empty sound.

Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

Order is heaven's first law.

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.