The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.