Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.