Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.