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.

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

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

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

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.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

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