That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.