Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.