When I'm Not Thanked At All, I'm

The Constant Desire Of Pleasing Which Is The Peculiar Quality Of Some, May Be Called The Happiest Of All Desires In This That It Rarely Fails Of Attaining Its End When Not Disgraced By Affectation.

...the Act Of Eating,which Hath By Several Wise Men Been Considered As Extremely Mean And Derogatory From The Philosophic Dignity, Must Be In Some Measure Performed By The Greatest Prince, Hero, Or Philosopher Upon Earth; Nay, Sometimes Nature Hath Been So Frolicsome As To Exact Of These Dignified Characters A Much More Exorbitant Share Of This Office Than She Hath Obliged Those Of The Lowest Orders To Perform.

Great Joy, Especially After A Sudden Change Of Circumstances, Is Apt To Be Silent, And Dwells Rather In The Heart Than On The Tongue.

It Is An Error Common To Many To Take The Character Of Mankind From The Worst And Basest Amongst Them; Whereas, As An Excellent Writer Has Observed, Nothing Should Be Esteemed As Characteristical, Of A Species But What Is To Be Found Amongst The Best And The Most Perfect Individuals Of That Species.

Yes, I Had Two Strings To My Bow; Both Golden Ones, Egad! And Both Cracked.