And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Pope, in his Last Letter to the Bishop of Rochester, (Atterbury,) said:—
At this time, when you are cut off from a little society and made a citizen of the world at large, you should bend your talents, not to serve a party or a few, but all mankind.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be, blest.—Pope.
Nous no jouissons jamais; nous espérons toujours.—Massillon, Sermon pour le Jour de St. Benoit.
The jocular saying of Douglas Jerrold, that a wife of forty should, like a bank-note, be exchangeable for two of twenty, was anticipated by Byron:—
Wedded she was some years, and to a man