Patience is sorrow's salve.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.