And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.