False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.