All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Order is heaven's first law.

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

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

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.