He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.