The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.