The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

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.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.