Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.