While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

Prudery is ignorance.

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.