The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.

In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.