Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.