This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.