What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

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

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

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.