Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

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

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

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