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

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

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