Virtue which shuns, the day.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.