To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.