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

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.