Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue