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

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.