"How blessings brighten as they take their flight."
"There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth."
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Source: Edward Young (1802). “The works of the author of the Night-thoughts. Revised and corrected by himself”, p.311
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