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

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The laughers are a majority.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.