People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.

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

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.