Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.