Lawful And Settled Authority Is

He Who Does Not Mind His Belly, Will Hardly Mind Anything Else.

Let Me Smile With The Wise, And Feed With The Rich.

Many A Man Is Mad In Certain Instances, And Goes Through Life Without Having It Perceived. For Example, A Madness Has Seized A Person Of Supposing Himself Obliged Literally To Pray Continually; Had The Madness Turned The Opposite Way, And The Person Thought It A Crime Ever To Pray, It Might Not Improbably Have Continued Unobserved.

The End Of Writing Is To Instruct; The End Of Poetry Is To Instruct By Pleasing.

Every Man Has Some Favorite Topic Of Conversation, On Which, By A Feigned Seriousness Of Attention, He May Be Drawn To Expatiate Without End.