True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.

Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.