Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

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

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.