The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

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

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

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