We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.