On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

Is not absence death to those who love?

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.