Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.
Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.
I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.