To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August

Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.