To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.
Take the good the gods provide thee.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.