A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

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

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.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all