Crime generally punishes itself.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

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.

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

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

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.