Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

They say women and music should never be dated.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

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