Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

Deathless laurel is the victor's due.

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

They say everything in the world is good for something.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

And plenty makes us poor.

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.