Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

They think too little who talk too much.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.