The most positive men are the most credulous.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.