The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.