Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

That queen of secrecy, the violet.

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?