To copy faults is want of sense..

What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds ….

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagi….

Genius is of no country..

A joke's a very serious thing..

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made..

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own..

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest..

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense..

If you mean to profit, learn to praise..

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought..

Fame is nothing but an empty name..

The best things carried to excess are wrong..

What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal, Lament those hardships whi….

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow..

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure..

If honor calls, where'er she points the way The sons of honor follow, and obey..

The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, u….

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves..

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone..