There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.