A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

Dogs, ye have had your day!

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.

There is a majesty in simplicity.

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.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.