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directed, contribute as much to a person's advantage, as it generally does to his uneasiness and disquiet. All superiority and pre-eminence that one man can have over another, may be reduced to the notion of Quality, which, considered at large, is either that of fortune, body, or mind. the first is that which consists in birth, title, or riches; and is the most foreign to our natures, and what we can the least call our own of any of the three kinds of Quality. In relation to the body, Quality arises from health, strength, or beauty; which are nearer to us, and more a part of ourselves than the former. Quality, as it regards the mind, has its rise from knowledge or virtue; and is that which is more estimated to us, and more intimately united with us than either of the other two. The Quality of fortune, though a man has less reason to value himself upon it than on that of the body or mind, is however the kind of Quality which makes the most shining figure in the eye of the world. The death-bed shows the emptiness of titles in a true light. A poor dispirited sinner lies trembling under the apprehensions of
