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

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

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

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.

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.