Health and happiness give rise to each other.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.