The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.

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.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.