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

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

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.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.