The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.