Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.