Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.
I love a life whose plot is simple.
The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.
When a man dies he kicks the dust.
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.