Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

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.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.