Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
Even victors are by victories undone.
Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.