Hope, like the gleaming taper

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

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

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

Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.