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

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.