Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.