How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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.