Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.
She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.