Hope Is An Amusement Rather

It Is Surely Very Narrow Policy That Supposes Money To Be The Chief Good.

Words Too Familiar, Or Too Remote, Defeat The Purpose Of A Poet. From Those Sounds Which We Hear On Small Or On Coarse Occasions, We Do Not Easily Receive Strong Impressions, Or Delightful Images; And Words To Which We Are Nearly Strangers, Whenever They Occur, Draw That Attention On Themselves Which They Should Transmit To Other Things.

Advice Is Seldom Welcome. Those Who Need It Most, Like It Least.

If I Have Said Something To Hurt A Man Once, I Shall Not Get The Better Of This By Saying Many Things To Please Him.

This Mournful Truth Is Everywhere Confessed, Slow Rises Worth By Poverty Depressed.