Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

They say women and music should never be dated.

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.