Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.