The Muses Crown Virtue When Fortune Refuses

I Endeavor To Be Wise When I Cannot Be Merry, Easy When I Cannot Be Glad, Content With What Cannot Be Mended, And Patient When There Be No Redress.

The Only Thing One Can Do One Day One Did Not Do The Day Before Is To Die.

Not To Be Miserable Is All Some People Are Capable Of.

Few People Know Anything Of The English History But What They Learn From Shakespear; For Our Story Is Rather A Tissue Of Personal Adventures And Catastrophes Than A Series Of Political Events.

Will An Intelligent Spectator Not Admire The Prodigeous Structures Of Stone-henge Because He Does Not Know By What Law Of Mechanics They Were Raised?