There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.