The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.