Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.