The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

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

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

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

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.