Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.