Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.