Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

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

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.