These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.