Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.

Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

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

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.