Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield.

Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome, at an inn.

Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,- To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a t…

Children and fools want everything, because they want wit to distinguish; there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a ca…