Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.