Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.