How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.