Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

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

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.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.