Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary alike of pleasures and of cares; that the powerful and the weak, the celebrated and obscure, join in one common wish, and implore from nature's hand the nectar of oblivion.