- Actions receive their tincture from the
times,
And as they change, are virtues made of crimes.
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- Middle age is youth without levity,
and age without decay.
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- Justice is always violent to the party
offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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- Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice,
in the highest extreme.
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- Wealth, however got, in England makes lords
of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
’Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
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- We never see the true state of our condition
till it is illustrated to us by its contraries; nor know how to value what we enjoy, but
by the want of it.
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- Fear of danger is 10,000 times more
terrifying than danger itself…and we find the burden of anxiety greater by much than
the evil which we are anxious about.
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