Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.

We frolic while 'tis May.

Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.