To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

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

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

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

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