He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.