And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

Little things are great to little men.