Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

No craving void left aching in the soul.

Most women have no characters at all.

Hope springs eternal.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.