A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.