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."

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.