It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.