A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.