To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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

And make each day a critic on the last.

So perish all who do the like again.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.