Whatever is, is in its causes just.
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.