The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.