False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

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