Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.