How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
Remorse begets reform.
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
Absence of occupation is not rest.