Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.