Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.
Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.
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.