As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

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.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.