An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.