There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.