Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.