Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.