To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.