Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

But love's a malady without a cure.

Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.