I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.