And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

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.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

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

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

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.