Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.