Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law..

Measures, not men, have always been my mark..

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past..

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, ar….

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity..

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the ….

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it..

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they..

Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the barga….

Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And e….

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than….

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives..

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall..

Silence gives consent..

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to….

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name..

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray..

Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspire….

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back..

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to ….

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes..