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.

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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.

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.