Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.

Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.