Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.