The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.