And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

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

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.