Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Error is ever talkative.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.