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!

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary alike of pleasures and of cares; that the powerful and the weak, the celebrated and obscure, join in one common wish, and implore from nature's hand the nectar of oblivion.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.