Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.