The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

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

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.