There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.