True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

The very pink of perfection.