What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Never find fault with the absent.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Then marble soften'd into life grew warm.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind.
Men would be angels Angels would be gods.
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
Order is Heaven's first law.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
One truth is clear Whatever is is right.
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.