The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Every woman is at heart a rake.

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.