A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.