There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.

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

The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.