To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.