A Volcano May Be Considered As A

A Man He Was To All The Country Dear, And Passing Rich With Forty Pounds A Year.

It Has Been Remarked That Almost Every Character Which Has Excited Either Attention Or Pity Has Owed Part Of Its Success To Merit, And Part To A Happy Concurrence Of Circumstances In Its Favor. Had Caesar Or Cromwell Exchanged Countries, The One Might Have Been A Sergeant And The Other An Exciseman.

Whatever The Skill Of Any Country May Be In The Sciences, It Is From Its Excellence In Polite Learning Alone That It Must Expect A Character From Posterity.

To Be Poor, And To Seem Poor, Is A Certain Method Never To Rise.

The Pregnant Quarry Teem'd With Human Form.