Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
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.