Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.