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!

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that we can at any tine exact with confidence; but the celebration of those which we only feign, or desire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a confession of sovereignty over regions never conquered, as a favourable decision of disputable claims, and is more welcome as more gratuitous.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

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

Applause abates diligence.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still