“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”

“Look round the habitable world, how fewKnow their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!”

“Whatever is, is in its causes just;But purblind manSees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link;His eyes not carrying to that equal beamThat poises all above.”

“None are so busy as the fool and knave.”

“Love is love's reward.”