Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

Virtue which shuns, the day.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

All of heaven we have below.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.