Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.