Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.