The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

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.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.