Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

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

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

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.