Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .