And empty heads console with empty sound.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!