Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.

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