Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.