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.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

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

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

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.

The very pink of perfection.