Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
There is a majesty in simplicity.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.