The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

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.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.