He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.