The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

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

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.