How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

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

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.