Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.