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

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.