An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.