They live too long who happiness outlive.
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.