To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.