The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.