Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

Crime generally punishes itself.

Hope, like the gleaming taper

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

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.