That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

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

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

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

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.