Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
To buried merit rise the tardy bust.
The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.
The triumph of hope over experience.
The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.