Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

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

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.