Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.
He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.