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

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

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

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

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