Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

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.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.