As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.