Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.