There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them