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

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!