But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.
A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.
Tis love in love that makes the sport.
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.