He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.