The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.