Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

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

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.