Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

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

Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.