Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
Not to ask is not be denied.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.
Love either finds equality or makes it.
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Better one suffer than a nation grieve.
All empire is no more than power in trust.
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
The conscience of a people is their power.
Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.
The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.
To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent’s least expense.