And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

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