Riches Seldom Make Their Owners Rich.

No People Can Be Great Who Have Ceased To Be Virtuous.

As Pride Sometimes Is Hid Under Humility, Idleness If Often Covered By Turbulence And Hurry.

I Never Take A Nap After Dinner But When I Have Had A Bad Night, And Then The Nap Takes Me.

The Complaint, Therefore, That All Topicks Are Preoccupied, Is Nothing More Than The Murmur Of Ignorance Or Idleness, By Which Some Discourage Others, And Some Themselves; The Mutability Of Mankind Will Always Furnish Writers With New Images, And The Luxuriance Of Fancy May Always Embellish Them With New Decorations.

Hunting Was The Labour Of The Savages Of North America, But The Amusement Of The Gentlemen Of England.