You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

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

It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

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

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

In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.