He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must…

A good rider on a good horse, is as much above himself and others, as this world can make him.

I must no less commend the study of anatomy, which whosoever considers, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxal, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of …

Our life is but a dark and stormy night, To which sense yields a weak and glimmering light, While wandering Man thinks he discerneth all By that which makes him but mistake and fall.

Now that the April of your youth adorns The garden of your face.

Sleep, Nurse of our life, Care’s best reposer, Nature's high'st rapture, and the vision giver.

The most effectual of all ways for making ourselves feel morally whole, and for attaining to the greatest heights of self-complacency, is to fall upon others for the sins of which we are ourselves guilty.