The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.