Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.

A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.