Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

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

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

Beware of the fury of the patient man.