Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.