Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!