Beware the fury of a patient man.

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

The conscience of a people is their power.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.