While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
A field of glory is a field for all.
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.