Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
Alexander PopeIn lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Alexander PopeI never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander Pope