A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.
Good is done by degrees.
Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.
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.
'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.