Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

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.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.