Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.