Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.