This long disease, my life.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.