I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.