There Is No Being So Poor And

To Strive With Difficulties, And To Conquer Them, Is The Highest Human Felicity.

A Patriot Is He Whose Public Conduct Is Regulated By One Single Motive, The Love Of His Country; Who, As An Agent In Parliament, Has, For Himself, Neither Hope Nor Fear, Neither Kindness Nor Resentment, But Refers Every Thing To The Common Interest

Flattery Pleases Very Generally. In The First Place, The Flatterer May Think What He Says To Be True; But, In The Second Place, Whether He Thinks So Or Not, He Certainly Thinks Those Whom He Flatters Of Consequence Enough To Be Flattered.

Spite And Ill-nature Are Among The Most Expensive Luxuries In Life.

Each Change Of Many-colour'd Life He Drew, Exhausted Worlds, And Then Imagin'd New.