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

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

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.