Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

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

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest