Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.
They live too long who happiness outlive.
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.