A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Politicians neither love nor hate.
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.