Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

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?

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

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

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.