“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say,…”

“He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.”

“Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile.”

“Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.”

“And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, There 's a lean fellow beats all conquerors.”

“'T is with our judgments as our watches,--none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.”