If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

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

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.