Health consists with temperance alone.

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.