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By the aid of a little optimistical phylosophy he was always pretty happy; he seemed to have formed for himself a sort of mental spying glass, Cooking thro' the magnifying end at all the good in his destiny, & thro' the diminishing end at all the evil; but in general we do the reverse, & hence arise many of our sorrows, hence the loud complaints, hence the grand invectives, & hence the universal grumbling that pervades the World. ---- Experience is too prone to accuse the Young & the gay with indiscretion, levity, or a desire of novelty, & then it judges with rigour, & over rated caution, those judgements are often erroneous.
