A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

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

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

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.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.