Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.