A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Stern is the visage of necessity.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.