Children blessings seem, but torments are;/ When young, our folly, and when old our fear.

A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.