we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.