For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.