Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Hope, like the gleaming taper

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.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.