And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.