Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.