Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

Education forms the common mind.

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!