Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

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

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.