The post of honour is a private station.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.