The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.