Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.