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

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?