True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

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

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

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