The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.