Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

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

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.