He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.