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 jests of the rich are ever successful.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.