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!

He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.

Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself, can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.