Patria est ubicumque est bene. One's country is wherever one does well.

-Anonymous
Quoted as proverbial by Cicero in Tusculanes Disputationes, 5.108. The saying was attributed to the mythical figure Teucer, ancestor of the Trojans, by the Roman tragedian Pacuvius (220^c.130      ).

   On s'inte¤  resse gue'  re aux affaires des autres que lorsqu'on est sans inquie¤  tude sur les siennes. We hardly interest ourselves in the affairs of others when things are going well for ourselves.

-Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de
  Le Barbier de Se¤  ville.

Say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? isit well with the child? And sheanswered,It is well.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 4:26.

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 84:6^7.

I am well as long as I live on horseback†sleep out-of- doors, or in a log cabin, and lead in all respects a completely unconventional life. But each time for a few days†I have become civilised, I have found myself rapidly going down again.

-Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop
  A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.

It looks well enough on the page, but never well enough.

-Bunting, Basil
  Briggflatts.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

-Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
  Letter to his son,10 Mar.

In myconscience I believethe baggage lovesme, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

-Congreve,William
  Bellemore to Sharper. The Old Bachelor, act1, sc.3.

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

-Dyer, Sir Edward
  'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into a crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.5.

He knew too well for any earthly use The line where man leaves off and nature starts, And never overstepped it save in dreams.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'New Hampshire'.

   Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.

-Galbraith,John Kenneth
  The Age of Uncertainty, ch.3.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Lord Mountarat's song, Iolanthe, act 2.

There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to a literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, shewing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

   It istruethat sinisthe cause of all thispain; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

-Julian of Norwich known as LadyJulian
^c.1393  Revelations of Divine Love, ch.27.

A man lives well and happily until he begins to feel unwell. Then he feels worse because the climate allows him no chance of pulling himself togetheröand then he dies.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Of life in Singapore. From Sea to Sea.

Non est vivere, sed valere vita est. Life is not just to be alive, but to be well.

-Martial full name MarcusValerius Martialis
Epigrams, bk.6, no.70.

Coonardootheycalled it, thedark well, or thewell inthe shadows.

-Prichard, Katharine Susannah married name Throssell
  Coonardoo, ch.1.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because, as a nation, we don't dress well and we've no manners.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Valentine to Dolly and Philip Clandon. You Never CanTell, act1.

Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.

-A'Ghobhainn
  'Poem of Lewis'.