The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.