The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

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

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

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.

The plainest case in many words entangling.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

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.