The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

See me, how calm I am.

Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation; he therefore is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or the future.

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 the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

For just experience tells, in every soil,
That those who think must govern those that toil.

Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Little things are great to little men.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.

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