He early began to aim at the qualifications of the soldier and scholar; was soon distinguished in the army and had some reputation among men of learning.

Adulation ever follows the ambitious; for such alone receive most pleasure from flattery.

He was surrounded with crowds, who shewed him only one side of their character; so that he began to lose a regard for private interest in universal sympathy.

He loved all mankind; for fortune prevented him from knowing that there were rascals.

Physicians tell us of a disorder in which the whole body is so exquisitely sensible, that the slightest touch gives pain: what some have thus suffered in their persons, this gentleman felt in his mind.