By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?