Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

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

Error is ever talkative.

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.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.