Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.