Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
Man wants little, nor that little long.