"What an important little thing is man! he contrives to overreach his neighbor, and mount to the enjoyment of riches, ambition and splendour; but remembers not the period of enjoyment--that his life is a day, and his space a point!"

"UNFORTUNATE is the man who trusts his happiness to the precarious friendship of the world--I every day become more of a misanthrope, and see nothing to increase my desire of living, but your esteem and affection. I want advice, but am too proud to let the world know I am weak enough to be under obligation to any one else."

-both penned by Harrington in William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy (US, 1789)