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

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

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

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

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

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

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.