The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.