What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.