Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.