Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.