So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

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

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

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