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

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.