The seas are quiet when the winds give o’er; So calm are we when passions are no more! — Edmund Waller
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults. — Edmund Waller
The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease. — Edmund Waller
Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires. — Edmund Waller
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays. — Edmund Waller