So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect; to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want.

Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.