Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.