The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.