Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.