It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.