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

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

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

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.