When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

The dignity of history.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.