Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

A perfect woman's but a softer man.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.